When you think about town building and simulation games, you probably thinks of game like EA’s The Sims or SimCity. Well that’s no longer the case, the newest in game in city building is Simpsons Tapped Out.
Amazingly, The Simpsons Tapped Out somehow manages to be a lot of fun. If you really think about it, a brand new mobile game taking on the theme of an overplayed and sometimes outdated cartoon, filled to the brim with in app purchases, should bad really bad idea. Somehow the game manages to overcome this and create something filled with content, amusement and a nice healthy amount of sarcasm.
Upon starting the game, you are taken through a brief cut scene which leads you to having to rebuild Springfield. In the cut scene, you see Homer Simpson doing what many of us try to get away with at work – playing mobile games, he is complaining about how much tapping and waiting he does (oddly enough basically telling you a lot of what you’ll be doing in this game), seconds after complaining, the nuclear power plant where Homer works explodes and completely destroys Springfield.
For a second, don’t think logically about what the town would be like if this actually happened, let’s imagine that Springfield isn’t an irradiated wasteland, instead the town is just totally leveled, leaving you – Homer, who somehow survived the blast – to rebuild the town.
Currently, Simpsons Tapped Out is running version 4.13.2 and requires your device to be running at least iOS version 5.1.1 or anything later. This game has been significantly improved with its regular updates, but this does not mean that you won’t encounter any bugs or glitches in the game, just remember that if you do run in to any problems, it’s a good idea to report what you’ve seen to the developers via Facebook, Twitter or email, this makes the likelihood of the problem getting noticed and fixed significantly higher. The game supports a variety of languages, so a much wider audience should be able to play the game, the Simpsons are universally known, so it is no surprise that there game supports languages from so many different countries. The game can be downloaded for free from the app store, with the added option of purchasing in app content and premium currency. The game currently has four and a half stars on the app store and has received mostly good reviews from players.
When it comes to premium currency in this game, you have six different package options. For twelve donuts, it will cost you $1.99, for a stack of sixty donuts it will cost you $4.99, for a tray of one hundred and thirty two donuts it will cost you $9.99, for a truckload of three hundred donuts it will cost you $19.99, for a store full of nine hundred donuts it will cost you $49.99 and for a boatload of two thousand four hundred donuts it will cost you $99.99. With donuts, you can buy special decorations and building that aren’t available to purchase with ordinary game money, you can also purchase more ordinary money with your donuts as well as use them to speed up the completion of tasks being completed by your citizens. In addition to the currency, you can also buy golden scratch lotto tickets for ninety nine cents a pop.
Rebuilding Springfield is no easy task so you’ll need plenty of donuts to to help with construction. Unfortunately donuts and old donuts cost real money to purchase in the game. That’s why we’ve added the hack for Simpsons Tapped Out to AppGameCheats!
Using the Simpsons Tapped Out hack tool allows you to add thousands of donuts and old donuts to your account for free. The tool is available for both Android and iOS devices and is tested to be safe. You can download the hack here at AGC.
After you download the hack, you’ll see the options menu that is pictured here. Just follow the instructions below to complete the hack.
The Simpsons Tapped Out hack will install itself right after you download it. The first thing you need to do is choose which type of device you’re using to play the game – either Android or iOS. Tap the “Detect Device” button to link the hack tool to your account.
Next type in the amount of donuts and old donuts you want to add. You can also check the boxes to unlock all items and enable quick building (much faster build times). We also recommend checking the Proxy and Anti-Ban boxes to ensure your account is safe from being banned.
Tap the “Start” button when you’re ready to begin the hack. The Simpsons Tapped Out hack takes about 30 seconds to finish working. When the hack is complete, open your Simpsons Tapped Out app and you’ll see the donuts, old donuts, and items have been added to your account. Now you can continue building up Springfield with unlimited donuts!
Simsons Tapped Out can be one of those games that give you a lot to do at once and it’s doesn’t stop hitting you with new tasks and content, so really you can use all the help you can get from my tips and tricks.
First up, if you’re the type that likes to hack these games to give yourself unlimited currency, I’d be careful with this game. Since it is a server sided game it can be quite difficult to make anything properly work for you, there are many hacks floating around all claiming to work really well, the sad fact is that only a small fraction of these actually manage to work. If you want my advice, I’d say not to risk even trying to hack your game as these kinds of games will completely block you from playing the game if they see that you have cheated. I suppose if you haven’t really played the game all that much and you’ve only just gotten past the tutorial it’s not that big a loss if you do decide to try hacking the game and end up getting banned. But if you’ve been playing for quite some time and have built up a very nice town for yourself, I really would not risk it to get extra donuts.
If you’re not interested in hacking and want to actually play the game legitimately, check out these tips and tricks that I’ve put together.
One of the best tricks I found for this game is actually super easy to get, it doesn’t require any special hacking skills or messing around with your device. Tap Home so that his list of available tasks pops up, once this has popped up, poke the homer wandering around on your screen ten times fast, after you’ve done this, you should get a little pop up telling you that you’ve gotten ten donuts and a special Jebediah Springfield statue.
When it comes down to choosing the task you want your citizens to perform, you’ll want to pay attention to specifically how long each task will take your character to complete, you don’t want to be accidentally having them do six hour tasks when you’ve just got on the game and they have quests that they need to complete. The tasks with the longest timers typically reward you with the most experience and cash, but it’s best to leave these ones until you’re done with the game for the day, that way, when you get back on the game the day after, you’ve got plenty of cash and experience waiting to be collected. Whilst playing the game and assigning tasks, just make sure you either have them do the shortest of the tasks or just stick to the tasks that you need to fulfill for your quests.
If you know you’re going to be playing the game for quite a long period of time, I’d advise purely sticking to the shorter tasks, whilst you probably aren’t going to get that much cash at once by doing this, if you do end up doing the short tasks enough, the money definitely adds up quite quickly.
If you’re getting tired of picking up all your experience and money, what you can do is just leave it to float where it is, everything automatically gets picked up after a short time anyway, so don’t waste your time picking things up when you could be assigning more tasks to do.
When it comes to the expansion of your town and adding more new buildings, choose what you are going to build very carefully, make sure you pay attention to exactly how much they are going to make you and how long it takes for the building to cash out. The commercial business buildings like the Kwik-E-Mart will make you more money than many other buildings, although these can take a lot longer to actually dish out the spoils of your labor. While you can have multiple tasks running simultaneously, this will ultimately end up taking a whole lot longer, so it isn’t always worth it, but really you have to decide when to do these task and whether they will really be worth the time that they take. I typically like to start these long tasks when I know I’m not going to be playing the game for a certain amount of time, that way, when I do end up returning to the game, I have a nice amount of money and experience waiting for me and I will have also hopefully completed some tasks too.
The residential building like the Simpson house or Flanders house will accumulate the income tax pretty quickly, although it isn’t exactly a lot of cash, it’s pretty handy because of how often and quickly it does pop up. If you still feel like you’re not getting enough from these buildings, you can tap them to see whether or not there are other tasks that the building could be completing to provide you with a little more extra cash. For example, if you check the Flanders house, you’ll see that there is a task for Lisa to go and babysit Rod and Todd. These tasks will take a little longer than the regular tasks, but they’ll definitely make you a nice little wad of cash.
If you’re struggling to level up and you’ve only got a little more experience before hitting the next level, I recommend buying items to decorate your town with; even a simple tree will help you out. Sure they won’t actually earn you any cash or donuts, but they are definitely worth buying a few of. If you look at your five star rating area, you’ll see that decorating the town more will actually improve some certain ratings. If you hit the star button in the bottom left corner of your screen, you’ll find your Conform-o-meter. This will show you a whole bunch of different things that need to be worked on in your tow, tapping each thing will tell you exactly how you can improve that specific rating, placing even mere trees will cause the tree hugger meter to rise quite drastically. The higher the rating you have on each specific thing, the better the bonuses you’ll get for completing tasks belonging to that category.
You’ll be given the option to buy the premium currency donuts as an in app purchase, if you do decide to buy some, I wouldn’t advise just using them to buy more cash, I would instead advise that you save them to rush those particularly long tasks, especially if you know that you don’t really have much time to play the game.
Finally, if you opt out of buying donuts, don’t just use what you have for the hell of it, these precious donuts need to be conserved until you really need to use them on something important, don’t use them on speeding up a five minute task, come on, you can wait that long, really, If you have to speed something up, at least make sure it’s a multiple hour task and you know that you’re nowhere near done playing for the day. Otherwise, do not squander these, they are like gold in this game, once it’s gone, you’re probably not going to get too many more very easily.
Your first act towards rebuilding the town is to rebuild the Simpsons house, in attempt to lure back some of the other members of the Simpson family (Yes, they all survived too). Going through the game, you are assigned a variety of tasks which will usually include placing specific buildings and having the townspeople perform select activities. Completing these tasks will reward you with money, although each task can vary when it comes to the amount of time it takes to complete them. You’ll soon fall into the familiar groove of setting tasks, waiting out the timer and collecting the cash from the task to spend on improving the town.
The gameplay is not deep by any means, but there is definitely a lot of fun to be had here. The game is full of pop culture references, famous faces and terrible jokes, there is plenty of content to work your way through so it’s hard to get bored unless you’re waiting long periods of time.
If you don’t really have that much time to invest in playing Simpsons Tapped Out, you may want to consider purchasing some of the game’s premium currency – donuts. Donuts allow you to speed up any actions you set your characters up to complete. You’ll also be able to buy some pretty cool premium buildings and decorations.
In addition to the waiting and the tapping that the game seeming consists of, you are also able to pay visits to other Springfields that have been built by other fellow players, these will typically be people from you Game Center friends list and people from your Facebook friends list who also play the game. No friends? No problem, there is another Springfield that you can visit anyway, it’s run by the game, so there is typically something to be done there, so you can still benefit from having a neighbor. In the friend maintained Springfields, you can complete any random three tasks within a period of twenty four hours. These tasks will usually be simple things like collecting income for certain buildings or finding yourself covering buildings with graffiti. If you play the game for a long period of time, you find that depending on the time of year, you’ll go through a variety of different events, this makes the game a little more interesting as you aren’t constantly getting bored with the same of things.
Artwork: I give Simpsons Tapped Out a 9/10 for its artwork. In terms of artwork, everything has more or less stayed true to what you see in the actual cartoon, which is what people expect when they’re playing a Simpsons themed game. The art style is classic and iconic; I can’t imagine that there are many people that don’t recognize it. Which is really why I’m so impressed with how well the artwork in the game is presented, especially in the shirt opening cut scene. I imagine that so many fans flocked to play the game because of this specific reason.
Music and SFX: I give the game a 9/10 for its music and SFX. I love how many classic catchphrases of various characters were included in this game, from Homers “Doh!” to Flanders’ “Okily dokily”, the authenticity of this game is pretty much guaranteed with these things along. The music also fit in with the pace of the game really well, even though a lot of it was pulled straight form the show, it only served to add even more substance to the game. If there’s one thing I love in a game, it’s a good flow that resonates with the action of the actual gameplay.
Story and Originality: I give the game a 7/10 for its story and originality. I do really like the fact that a sense of story is established for the very beginning of the game, the fact that you know there is reason for doing what you’re doing adds purpose to the game, pushing you to really play it to the best of your ability. The story is explaining in the beginning cut scene, it’s pretty funny and I love that it basically pokes fun at itself, whilst also providing you with a word of warning; don’t get too engrossed in your game that you accidentally end up blowing up your town. Ever since the popularity of this game has grown, Fox has developed a game that is similar to thins based on another one of their shows – Family Guy, because of the great similarities, the games feel more like they’re wanting to get money out of you rather than create a really fun and original game.
General Gameplay: I give the game a 7/10 for its general gameplay. Personally I found the gameplay somewhat annoying at times, it was difficult to move my decorations and buildings around, which really made the game get very frustrating at times. The game is definitely easy enough to get into, but after some time playing it, you realize that really all you’re doing is doing the same old tasks over and over again and it quickly becomes quite tedious. I will definitely say that I can appreciate how smoothly the game actually runs, I didn’t encounter any game breaking bugs and I was able to play nicely until I was ready to close the game myself instead of it just deciding to crash out on me. So kudos on that.
Addictiveness: I give the game an 8/10 for its addictiveness. As homer says in the intro scene “Tap and wait, tap and wait…” really that is a lot of this game really is, you tap a task, you wait for the task to be done, rinse and repeat, same old, same old. I can definitely see how people can get addicted to this game. As humans, we’re pretty used to the monotony of life, so playing a game that imitates that quire well can be somewhat appealing. Even if you do finish for the day, you forget that you enabled push notifications a few hours back, these remind you constantly that there is no escape from this game, what’s that you say iPad? Homer is done channel surfing? Well I’d better go collect the proceeds from that!
Overall, I give Simpsons Tapped Out an 8/10.
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